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Here are a few reasons why Brad Callen’s Keyword Elite is one of the best keyword research tools on the market
Keyword Elite gives you the power to:
Lately we’ve received some inquiries about the locations that are often displayed beneath the last line of text in AdWords ads. Here’s some helpful information that explains when we display locations, and how we determine what to display.
How’d that get there?
When you use regional targeting in your campaigns, Google users searching from your targeted areas will see the city or region name (whichever is more specific) displayed directly beneath your ad. This alerts users that your product or service may be especially relevant to them due to your proximity, and it helps you reach local users. Check out this example ad:

n part two of this series, Fred Vallaeys, Product Evangelist for AdWords, discussed how to set up the conversion tracking feature available in every Standard Edition AdWords account — and how to use conversion tracking information to track your ROI. Today, in the final installment of the series, Fred is back with tips on how to start using that ROI data to your advantage.
Once you have a week’s worth or more of conversion tracking data, you should have enough information in your reports to start adjusting your bids to improve your ROI. Here are two strategies to improve bids using your new data.
We introduced Fred Vallaeys, Product Evangelist for AdWords, and turned him loose on a topic that is likely to be of particular interest to just about every advertiser: Return on Investment (ROI). Today, Fred is back with part two of this three part series:
In part one of the series, I explained that it’s important to measure ROI because this metric gives you the complete picture about the profitability of the keywords in your AdWords account. This week, I’ll cover how to start collecting ROI data in your own AdWords account. Since ROI depends on how often you convert clicks into customers and how much profit you make on every transaction, you’ll need to enable conversion tracking with conversion values in your account. Let’s take a look at how to do this.
Over the past couple of years you’ve met a number of AdWords experts on our blog — and, in that spirit, we’d like to introduce Fred Vallaeys, the Product Evangelist for AdWords. You may have met Fred in person, or heard him speak at recent industry events. If you’re someone who attends these types of events keep your eye out for him: he loves to hear feedback from our advertisers firsthand.Today, we begin a new series on a subject that is key to advertiser success: Return on Investment (ROI). In this series, Fred will cover why ROI matters, how to track it using tools available from AdWords or other sources, and how to optimize AdWords advertising for ROI.
Welcome back to our series on AdWords Optimization Tips. A number of our readers have written in to ask about managing and optimizing their bids for best performance, so that is the topic we’ll address today. Please note that some of today’s tips are directed towards readers who also use Google Analytics, while others are general tips for all AdWords users.
When you are optimizing your bids, you should test how adjusting your bids and changes in your ad ranking affect your return-on-investment (ROI). Below, we cover a few tools and tips that can help you measure these results so you can make the best decisions for your campaigns.